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Fire officials received a call about the spill at 10:52 a.m., after city water officials found themselves unable to handle the problem alone, Reardon said. He said a defective valve in a full chlorine tank being placed into service caused the leak...
Fire Capt. Gerald Reardon said that no serious damage resulted from the chlorine spill. "A cloud vaporizes very quickly in the air," he said. "There was no danger to the water...
Nonetheless, officials on the scene said that spill could have been extremely dangerous if it had not been contained so quickly...
...Vietnam, U.S. troops bombed the land in order to save it. The same logic seems to have prevailed in the wake of the 11 million-gal. Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska last year. To help win multimillion-dollar court judgments against Exxon, federal and state officials have funded the deliberate killing of hundreds of healthy animals. The aim of all this destruction? To better estimate the destruction caused by the spill...
...Fish and Wildlife Service says the killings were approved only "after a lot of soul searching" in order to "develop a key piece of evidence." Following the spill, some 36,000 dead birds were recovered from the waters. But researchers estimate that the fatalities may have been far more numerous, between 100,000 and 300,000. The project seeks to demonstrate that the missing birds could have sunk to the ocean bottom, floated out to sea, or washed up on deserted shores. In separate studies, meanwhile, the state of Alaska killed more than 200 ducks and scores of mammals, including...